About the Author:
About the author:
Jagdish Mehra is the author of many articles and books on twentieth-centuryphysics, including Einstein, Hilbert, and the Theory of Gravitation and the first five volumes (seven books) of The Historical Development of QuantumTheory, with Helmut Rechenburg. The Citadel Distinguished Professor of Physics at Charleston, South Carolina, Jadish Mehra received the Humboldt Prize in 1976.
Review:
'As a theoretical physicist with a publication record in the history of quantum mechanics, Mehra seems to be exceptionally well qualified for his task ... Feynman's life story is well told ... Mehra's biography is a useful book ... It's a fount of new information about Feynman, much of it
presented in the master's own voice. For physicists, this may be the preferred biography.'
London Review of Books
'If it were possible for anyone to write an authoritative account of the life and science of Richard Feynman, Jagdish Mehra would seem to be the man to do it. Mehra's biography is a useful book. It's a fount of new information about Feynman, much of it presented in the master's own voice.'
London Review of Books
'As a theoretical physicist with a publication record in the history of quantum mechanics. mehra seems to be exceptionally well qualified for his task. If it were possible for anyone to write an authoritative account of the life and science of Richard Feynman, Jagdish Mehra would seem to be
the man to do it. ... a useful book, It's a fount of new information about Feynman, much of it presented in the master's own voice.'
London Review of Books, May '94
'pleasure lies in the fact that India's finest historian of science has produced this outstanding biography'
Shiv Visvanathan, Financial Express
`most comprehensive biography written to date ... one of most prominent American theoretical physicists of this century'
New technical Books, Jan/Feb 94
`a serious biography ... Mehra gives a very comprehensive survey of all of Feynman's achievements in research, teaching and other physics-related activities ... also includes interesting surveys of his less well-known activities.'
Times Higher,
`the book has several merits. One is the overview it gives of the vast scope of Feynman's physics ... I ... recommend it for its wealth of Feynman material (much of which is new), feeding our endless fascination with this irresistable character.'
Michael Berry, University of Bristol, Physics World, August 1994
`I really enjoyed this as a 'holiday read.' I learnt quite a lot about how this unusual man approached his work, and it stimulated me to chase up Feymna's own papers....'
Contemporary Physics
`very much a theoretical physicist's account of the life and works of a fellow theoretical physicist and, as such, perhaps gives a more perceptive account of the interplay between Feynman's personal life and his work than could be given by any non-physicist ... a scholarly ... work ... this is
the book on Feynman that should grace your bookshelf.'
Steve Donnelly, The Skeptic, Volume 8, Number 4, 1994
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